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“I liked slicing through the beige brain when it had been fixed; the texture reminded me of cooked cauliflower. It was wonderful to hold…

— Sebastian Faulks

“Many of the best fantastic stories begin in a leisurely way, set in commonplace surroundings, with exact, meticulous descriptions of an ordinary background, much…

— Franz Rottensteiner

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired…

— Jim Carrey

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

— Mark Twain

I am attracted to the ambiguous and abstract. I have an obsession with the oddly. I am fascinated by frivolousness.

— Nathan Park

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.

— Stan Lee

“By his own choice, he had so little contact with the outside world that he frequently considered the commonplace to be bizarre: an automatic-teller…

— Donna Tartt

The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread,…

— Anonymous

“And so sometimes when you feel strange, when a pang tugs at your heart or it seems like the moment has already happened- or…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“The Weirdos On our first date, he bought me a taco, talked at length about the ancients' theories of light, how it streams at…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“There is this strangeness of a life story having no shape—or more accurately, nothing but its present—until it has its ending; and then suddenly…

— James Wood

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little…

— Roger Penrose